[opensuse] Installed Krita - hosed Plasma & KDE4
Did something fairly stupid. Needed to make some simple modifications to a .pdf document very quickly - the .pdf rendered poorly in OO Draw. Saw a post that said "Krita" rendered .pdf's better and decided I'd try it - via YAST. As soon as I clicked the Krita box in YAST I entered dependency hell. I accepted three series of additional packages to install to solve dependency. Amazingly, it finally came up "clean" of dependency issues and I installed Krita. As soon as I started Krita my plasma desktop crashed and I got this message:Executable: kdeinit4 PID: 13179 Signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) and the remaining desktop was some odd looking Gnome type screen. I logged out and tried to log back in. First in KDE4 then in KDE4 safe mode. Both times with the same results. I tried a hard re-boot, same result. I logged back in with XFCE and everything appeared to be fine, except that it was XFCE - not KDE4 with plasma - which unlike many here - I really like! Any hints on how to get KDE4 / Plasma back ? thanks ps. Krita really did render the .pdf quite well! -- Regis Matejcik Crescent Construction Company www.CrescentConstruction.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 08/04/2010 05:57 PM, Regis Matejcik wrote:
Did something fairly stupid.
Needed to make some simple modifications to a .pdf document very quickly - the .pdf rendered poorly in OO Draw. Saw a post that said "Krita" rendered .pdf's better and decided I'd try it - via YAST.
As soon as I clicked the Krita box in YAST I entered dependency hell. I accepted three series of additional packages to install to solve dependency. Amazingly, it finally came up "clean" of dependency issues and I installed Krita.
As soon as I started Krita my plasma desktop crashed and I got this message:Executable: kdeinit4 PID: 13179 Signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) and the remaining desktop was some odd looking Gnome type screen.
I logged out and tried to log back in. First in KDE4 then in KDE4 safe mode. Both times with the same results. I tried a hard re-boot, same result. I logged back in with XFCE and everything appeared to be fine, except that it was XFCE - not KDE4 with plasma - which unlike many here - I really like!
Any hints on how to get KDE4 / Plasma back ?
thanks
ps. Krita really did render the .pdf quite well!
For some strange reason it sounds like your window manager in kde4 is probably defaulting to 'metacity' instead of 'kwin' now. (I bet the window decorations look odd too). I have had that happen before with compiz. Log back into kde4 and open konsole or just use 'Alt+F2' to open the run dialog and type: 'kwin --replace &' (without quotes) That should get kwin back as your wm. Then either use konsole or Alt+F2 to restart plasma-desktop with the following 3 commands: kbuildsycoca4 kquitapp plasma-desktop >/dev/null 2>&1 kstart plasma-desktop & >/dev/null 2>&1 (you can just cut & paste all 3 lines into konsole at once) I have to restart plasma so often, I just put that in a tiny script as such: #!/bin/bash kbuildsycoca4 kquitapp plasma-desktop >/dev/null 2>&1 kstart plasma-desktop & >/dev/null 2>&1 save it in ~/bin/rsplasma, then chmod 0754 bin/rsplasma and if you ever need to re-start plasma again, then just call the script with: rsplasma and you should be good to go. Note: my diagnosis of the original problem is just my best guess based on what you provided. If it doesn't work, post back and I or somebody will get it figured out :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Did something fairly stupid.
Needed to make some simple modifications to a .pdf document very quickly - the .pdf rendered poorly in OO Draw. Saw a post
rendered .pdf's better and decided I'd try it - via YAST.
As soon as I clicked the Krita box in YAST I entered dependency hell. I accepted three series of additional packages to install to solve dependency. Amazingly, it finally came up "clean" of dependency issues and I installed Krita.
As soon as I started Krita my plasma desktop crashed and I got this message:Executable: kdeinit4 PID: 13179 Signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) and the remaining desktop was some odd looking Gnome type screen.
I logged out and tried to log back in. First in KDE4 then in KDE4 safe mode. Both times with the same results. I tried a hard re-boot, same result. I logged back in with XFCE and everything appeared to be fine, except that it was XFCE - not KDE4 with
On Thursday 05 August 2010 00:57:31 Regis Matejcik wrote: that said "Krita" plasma - which unlike many here
- I really like!
Any hints on how to get KDE4 / Plasma back ?
At last, someone who wants to keep it ;).
ps. Krita really did render the .pdf quite well!
At least that worked. Tell us which version of openSUSE you are running, and give us the detailed repository list output by 'zypper lr -d' and we'll straighten it out for you again. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 04/08/10 23:57, Regis Matejcik wrote:
Did something fairly stupid.
Needed to make some simple modifications to a .pdf document very quickly - the .pdf rendered poorly in OO Draw. Saw a post that said "Krita" rendered .pdf's better and decided I'd try it - via YAST.
As soon as I clicked the Krita box in YAST I entered dependency hell. I accepted three series of additional packages to install to solve dependency. Amazingly, it finally came up "clean" of dependency issues and I installed Krita.
As soon as I started Krita my plasma desktop crashed and I got this message:Executable: kdeinit4 PID: 13179 Signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) and the remaining desktop was some odd looking Gnome type screen.
I logged out and tried to log back in. First in KDE4 then in KDE4 safe mode. Both times with the same results. I tried a hard re-boot, same result. I logged back in with XFCE and everything appeared to be fine, except that it was XFCE - not KDE4 with plasma - which unlike many here - I really like!
Any hints on how to get KDE4 / Plasma back ?
thanks
ps. Krita really did render the .pdf quite well! Look in the file /var/log/zypp/history, the package installation history. If you could identify the packages that were installed/removed with krita (probably at the bottom, look at the timestamp) and report back we should be able to figure out the offending package.
Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 5 August 2010 10:25, Tejas Guruswamy
On 04/08/10 23:57, Regis Matejcik wrote:
Did something fairly stupid.
Needed to make some simple modifications to a .pdf document very quickly - the .pdf rendered poorly in OO Draw. Saw a post that said "Krita" rendered .pdf's better and decided I'd try it - via YAST.
As soon as I clicked the Krita box in YAST I entered dependency hell. I accepted three series of additional packages to install to solve dependency. Amazingly, it finally came up "clean" of dependency issues and I installed Krita.
As soon as I started Krita my plasma desktop crashed and I got this message:Executable: kdeinit4 PID: 13179 Signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) and the remaining desktop was some odd looking Gnome type screen.
I logged out and tried to log back in. First in KDE4 then in KDE4 safe mode. Both times with the same results. I tried a hard re-boot, same result. I logged back in with XFCE and everything appeared to be fine, except that it was XFCE - not KDE4 with plasma - which unlike many here - I really like!
Any hints on how to get KDE4 / Plasma back ?
thanks
ps. Krita really did render the .pdf quite well!
Look in the file /var/log/zypp/history, the package installation history. If you could identify the packages that were installed/removed with krita (probably at the bottom, look at the timestamp) and report back we should be able to figure out the offending package.
Regards, Tejas
I'll probably get shouted upon, but try adding "solver.allowVendorChange = true" to /etc/zypp/zypp.conf and then run "zypper -v up". This might fix the inconsistencies between the KDE4 packages. Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 05/08/10 10:59, Vadym Krevs wrote:
I'll probably get shouted upon, but try adding "solver.allowVendorChange = true" to /etc/zypp/zypp.conf and then run "zypper -v up". This might fix the inconsistencies between the KDE4 packages.
Regards, Vadym If that's all you want to do its easier to just run zypper dup (which has the same effect as allowVendorChange=true && zypper up). But nevertheless I definitely wouldn't recommend it without knowing at least what repo's he has enabled.
Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 5 August 2010 11:03, Tejas Guruswamy
On 05/08/10 10:59, Vadym Krevs wrote:
I'll probably get shouted upon, but try adding "solver.allowVendorChange = true" to /etc/zypp/zypp.conf and then run "zypper -v up". This might fix the inconsistencies between the KDE4 packages.
Regards, Vadym
If that's all you want to do its easier to just run zypper dup (which has the same effect as allowVendorChange=true && zypper up). But nevertheless I definitely wouldn't recommend it without knowing at least what repo's he has enabled.
Regards, Tejas
Hmm, I thought there was more to zypper dup than allowVendorChange=true. Thanks for the tip. Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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